Campaigning for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections will end this evening. 117 parliamentary constituencies spread over 12 States and Union Territory will go to polls in this phase on Thursday. These are all 39 seats in Tamil Nadu, 19 in Maharashtra, 12 in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Madhya Pradesh, 7 each in Bihar and Chhattisgarh, 6 each in Assam and West Bengal, 5 in Rajasthan, 4 in Jharkhand, one in Jammu and Kashmir and the lone seat in the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Leaders of various political parties are busy making last ditch efforts by holding election rallies and organising road shows to woo voters in favour of their party candidates.
In Uttar Pradesh, intensive campaigning is going on in the 12 Lok Sabha constituencies going to the polls on April 24.
The campaigning in these areas will end this evening. Several senior leaders including Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mayawati, Rajnath Singh, Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav have organised rallies, roadshows and public meetings in the last three days to woo the voters.
AIR correspondent reports that the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is also scheduled to hold a rally with Rashtriya Lok Dal general secretary and local candidate Jayant Chaudhary in Mathura this afternoon.
In Chhattisgarh, curtains will come down on electioneering for the third and last phase of elections this evening. Polling is scheduled for April 24 in seven Lok Sabha constituencies of the state. Campaigning is now at its peak in these constituencies. Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will address an election meeting in the afternoon at Bemetara in Durg Lok Sabha constituency.
In Madhya Pradesh, campaigning for the ten seats which will go to polls on Thursday will end this evening. These seats are Vidhisha, Dewas, Indore, Dhar, Ujjain. Ratlam, Mandsour, Khandwa, Khargoun and Betul.
A total of 118 candidates are in the fray whose political fate will be decided by more than one crore 69 lakh voters. Prominent candidates of this phase are leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, former union minister Kantlal Bhuria and state Congress president Arun Yadav.
